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High pusher, pubnub and mqtt adaptor error rate

Degraded Lasted 33m · started · Ably's page

Level
confirmed
Worst impact
Degraded
Components
Asia-Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Europe (Ireland), Europe (Frankfurt), US East (Northern Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Northern California)
Regions
apac, au, eu, eu-west-1, us
Down Index
48of 100

What to do

  • Check whether you use Ably Asia-Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Europe (Ireland), Europe (Frankfurt) and 3 more in apac, au, eu, eu-west-1. Check your stack

    Paste a package.json, lockfile, Terraform or a list of domains at down.guide/stack to see every provider you depend on.
  • Confirm your retries, queues and scheduled jobs caught up after the 33m it lasted.

    Anything that failed between 2025-11-25 11:38 UTC and 2025-11-25 12:11 UTC may need a replay.
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Updates from Ably 4

  1. monitoring

    There was a high error rate with pusher, pubnub, and mqtt protocol adaptors in one region for a duration of 11 minutes from 11:25 UTC in the eu-west-1 (Ireland) region. This has now been resolved. No other region was affected

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  2. monitoring

    There is a high error rate for all translator protocol adaptors globally (pusher, pubnub and mqtt). We have identified the issue and are working on a fix.

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  3. monitoring

    We have resolved the issue and the error rate has now dropped across all affected regions. We are continuing to monitor.

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  4. resolved

    The incident is now resolved. The elevated protocol adaptor error rate affected EU regions for 36 minutes from 11.25am-12.01pm UTC, for 15 minutes in US regions from 11.50am-12.05pm UTC, and for 14 minutes in AP regions from 11.48am-12.02pm UTC.

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Corrections

None so far.

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Questions about DWN-d6a6be3485

Is Ably still down?

No, this incident was resolved 2025-11-25 12:11 UTC. For Ably's live state, see https://down.guide/ably.

How long did it last?

33m, from 2025-11-25 11:38 UTC to 2025-11-25 12:11 UTC, by the times Ably posted.

What was affected?

Ably named Asia-Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Europe (Ireland), Europe (Frankfurt) and 3 more in apac, au, eu, eu-west-1.

What caused it?

Ably hasn't published a root cause. If it does, it shows here.

Where does this come from?

Ably's official status page, https://status.ably.com, quoted verbatim. down.guide's own probes, reports and social counts are labeled as ours.